Children's Books by BIPOC Authors
- by Candica Iloh
- 4-6 Years, 6-8 Years, Children's, Children's Picture Book, Preschool
- Publication Year: 2026
From award-winning author Candice Iloh and New York Times illustrator Bea Jackson comes a warmhearted picture book celebration of traditional Nigerian home cooking and the surprising joys of trying new...
- 4-6 Years, 6-8 Years, Children's
- Publication Year: 2026
Renowned author Nikki Grimes and debut picture book writer Stacy Wells (Choctaw) lend their resonant voices to award-winning artist E. B. Lewis’s (Lenni Lenape) rich watercolors in this story of...
- Children's, Middle School
- Publication Year: 2026
The start of a thrilling new middle-grade series from Jordan Ifueko, author of the New York Times bestselling fantasy Raybearer. Valentine Adesanya has two missions: 1) become a Feared and...
- Children's
- Publication Year: 2026
Eureka is a gorgeous and emotionally resonant novel-in-verse by multiple-award-winning poet Victoria Chang that sensitively and lyrically renders the tragic events surrounding the 1885 expulsion of Chinese Americans from Eureka,...
- 4-6 Years, 6-8 Years, Children's, Children's Picture Book, Preschool
- Publication Year: 2025
A story about a girl and her mom introducing a school friend to curry—and discovering all the things that curry means to them as they learn to make it together....
- 4-6 Years, 6-8 Years, Children's, Children's Picture Book
- Publication Year: 2025
A heartwarming tale of a community preparing for and celebrating Eid al-Fitr, seen through the eyes of a curious neighborhood cat! Nylah the cat is making her usual visits to...
- 4-6 Years, 6-8 Years, Children's, Children's Picture Book
- Publication Year: 2025
A warm tale about celebrating sisterly love, family, and quinceañeras by Yamile Saied Méndez. Two sisters, Ellie and Isabella, have been dreaming of Isabella’s quinceañera for months and now the...
- 4-6 Years, 6-8 Years, Children's, Children's Picture Book
- Publication Year: 2025
Celebrate a Black boy’s first haircut in this joyful book from Sharee Miller. Jordan loves his hair: soft like a cloud, regal like a crown. He doesn’t want a haircut...
- 4-6 Years, 6-8 Years, Children's, Children's Picture Book
- Publication Year: 2025
A lyrical dual-lingual picture book about the beauty of being part of two cultures. I’m from here y soy de allá. With lyrical text in English and Spanish, this vibrant...
- by Yuyi Morales
- 4-6 Years, 6-8 Years, Children's, Children's Picture Book
- Publication Year: 2025
Do you know a little rebel? Do you want to be a rebel, too? A powerful new picture book from Caldecott Honoree Yuyi Morales, creator of Dreamers and Bright Star....
- 4-6 Years, 6-8 Years, Children's, Children's Picture Book
- Publication Year: 2025
Discover the history of the endangered Ojibwe horse and the daring intervention of the Lac La Croix First Nation in this celebration of community, tradition, courage, and hope. It’s a...
- Children's, Children's Picture Book
- Publication Year: 2025
On the misty slopes of Hawai‘i’s sacred mountain Mauna Loa, high in the upland forest where the trees reach their branches to the open sky, a koa seed awakens. Slowly,...
- 8-12 Years, Children's
- Publication Year: 2025
Based on the true story of Roberto Alvarez and the Lemon Grove Incident, this vivid and uplifting middle grade debut novel in verse about one young child’s courage to stand...
- 8-12 Years, Children's, Children's Chapter Book
- Publication Year: 2025
Page-turning WW2 hidden history masterfully told by award winner Daniel Nayeri. 1941. The German armies are storming across Europe. Iran is a neutral country occupied by British forces on one...
- by Nikki Grimes
- 4-6 Years, 6-8 Years, Children's
- Publication Year: 2025
From award-winning author Nikki Grimes comes a beautiful picture book about the special bond between a child and grandparent. When the squeal of tires and thrum of Grandpa’s hammer fill...
- 4-6 Years, 6-8 Years, Children's, Children's Picture Book, Preschool
- Publication Year: 2025
A great grandma imparts the wisdom gained over her one hundred years to an eager little girl in this tender picture book tribute to family and living a long, purposeful,...
- 8-12 Years, Children's Chapter Book, Middle School, Preteen
- Publication Year: 2025
From the acclaimed author Tamika Burgess comes a timely coming-of-age story about a young boy’s fight to save his family and his dreams in the aftermath of the US military...
- by Joy Harjo
- 4-6 Years, 6-8 Years, Children's, Children's Picture Book, Preschool
- Publication Year: 2025
From United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo and Pura Belpré Award–winning illustrator Adriana Garcia: a luminous benediction for a girl’s journey through life, and a celebration of our connections to...
- 4-6 Years, 6-8 Years, Children's
- Publication Year: 2024
When Simone is awakened by her mom as a wildfire threatens their home, it is the beginning of a life-changing journey. On their way to take shelter in a high...
- by Mayasa Odeh
- 4-6 Years, 6-8 Years, Children's, Children's Picture Book
- Publication Year: 2024
A young Palestinian girl living in diaspora struggles to find her homeland on a map in this gentle and heartfelt picture book. At school, Falasteen and her classmates are tasked...
- Children's
- Publication Year: 2024
From master Hopi woodcarver Mavasta Honyouti, the story of his grandfather’s experience at a residential boarding school and how he returned home to pass their traditions down to future generations....
- 4-6 Years, 6-8 Years, Children's, Children's Picture Book, Preschool
- Publication Year: 2024
A Cherokee girl introduces her younger brother to their family’s traditions — begrudgingly! — in this picture book written by Walter Award-winner Andrea L. Rogers and featuring gorgeous collage illustrations...
- by Tina Cho
- 8-12 Years, Children's
- Publication Year: 2024
This poignant and moving graphic novel in verse captures the dangers and hope that come with fleeing North Korea and reaching for a brighter future through the lives of Yunho...
- 4-6 Years, Children's, Children's Picture Book, Preschool
- Publication Year: 2024
A family goes on a trip from the city to the sea in search of renewal in this “lively and lovely…beautiful” (Jacqueline Woodson, National Book Award–winning author of Brown Girl...